Words Starting With "D"

1. D
2. Dabble – work in a nonsense fashion; play hands in water
3. Damp – lessen intensity; diminish; to make something such as feeling or hope less strong
4. Dank – dark and damp
5. Dapper – a small man wearing attractive clothes, well dressed
6. Dappled – spotted
7. Daub – to spread a wet substance such as paint on a surface in a careless way
8. Dawdle – loiter, waste time; to do something slowly that annoys others ‘stop dawdling’
9. Deadpan – impassive, wooden
10. Dearth – scarcity
11. Debacle – a disaster or failure
12. Debacle – disaster, catastrophe, fiasco, devastation, misfortune, calamity, deluge
13. Debase – degrade, defile, demean, disgrace
14. Debauch – corrupt, seduce from virtue; did Socrates debauch young people by enticing them to question as iconoclasts?
15. Debauched (A) – a debauched person is immoral in their sexual behavior, drinks a lot of alcohol, takes drugs etc. – bacchanalian
16. Debilitate – week or enfeeble; to make somebody physically or mentally ill
17. Debonair – urbane and suave, amiable, cheerful and carefree; a man with debonair character wears fashionable clothes, and is attractive, relaxed and confident.
18. Debunk – exposed as false, exaggerated, worthless, ridicule; to prove that something such as an idea or belief is false and silly
19. Debutante – a young woman just entering into fashion society
20. Decadence – the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
21. Decant – to pour wine carefully in decanter (wine container); to move people from one place to another
22. Decipher – to understand code or cipher; to understand confusing things
23. Décolleté – a piece of woman cloth which is very low at the top so that you can see part of her shoulders and breasts
24. Decorum – polite behavior or propriety
25. Decoy – a bird used by hunter to attract other birds; lure or bait (insect used in fishing hook)
26. Decrepitude – the state of being old and no longer in good condition or good health; dilapidation
27. Decry – to strongly criticize somebody or something especially publicly; condemn, disparage; deprecate
28. Deface – mar, disfigure, to damage the appearance of something especially by drawing or writing on it. If you deface library books you have to pay fine.
29. Defalcate (V) – misuse money held in trust
30. Defeatist – behaving is a way that shows that you think you will fail or lose
31. Defection – abandon a party and join another, desertion, “She was deserted or defected by her husband”
32. Deference – courtesy, respect
33. Defiance – refusal to obey a person or rule; “Nuclear testing was resumed in defiance of an international ban.”
34. Defile – tarnish; to spoil something important, pure or holy
35. Deflect – to direct criticism, attention, or blame away from yourself towards someone else; avert, distract, ward off, turn away
36. Defoliate – to remove the leaves from a plant or tree using defoliant – a chemical
37. Defray – to give somebody back the money that they have spent on something
38. Defrock – divest, to remove a priest from their job because they have done something wrong
39. Deft – dexterous
40. Deft (A) – skilled in physical movement; dexterous
41. Deify – to treat somebody as god or deity
42. Deign – condescend stoop
43. Delirious – insane; raving; affected with delirium
44. Delirious – talking or thinking in a confused way
45. Delirium – a mental state where somebody becomes delirious, usually because of illness,
46. Delude – to make somebody believe something that is not true; deceive, cozen
47. Delusion – false belief, hallucination, a belief that you are more important than you really are
48. Delusive – deception, raising vain hopes
49. Delve – dig, investigate; delving into old books and manuscripts is a part of researcher’s job
50. Demean – degrade; humiliate, to make people have less respect to someone
51. Demented – affected by dementia; senile dementia, having mental illness, insane
52. Demolition – destruction of a building
53. Demoniac – like a demon
54. Demure – to object to do something
55. Denigrate - to criticize in a way that has no value; blacken
56. Denizen – inhabitant, resident, regular visitor, dweller
57. Denouement – the end of a book, play or series of events, final development of a play
58. Deposition – a formal written statement by a witness that is read out in a court because the witness cannot be present at the court
59. Deprecate – express disapproval of; protest against; belittle
60. Depredation – plundering, damage or harm that is dine to something
61. Deranged – disarrange; behaving in an uncontrolled or dangerous way because of mental illness
62. Derelict (A) – abandoned, negligent; something such as building or piece of land that is derelict is empty, not used, and in a bad condition
63. Deride – mock, ridicule, make fun of
64. Derisory (A) – incongruous; inviting ridicule; “The egg seller can get 250 dollar which is a derisory payment, which leaves many egg donors out of pocket and pointedly fails to draw any distinction between the egg and sperm donor”; ludicrous; preposterous; cockeyed; absurd
65. Descry – to suddenly see somebody on the way
66. Desiccate – to make dry “desiccated tomato”
67. Desolate – a place empty and without people; forlorn
68. Desperado – a person who does dangerous and criminal things without caring himself or other people
69. Despise – hate; to dislike or have no respect for somebody or something
70. Despoil – plunder, loot; to steal something valuable from a place
71. Despondent – depressed, gloomy, hopeless
72. Desuetude – inaction, state of disuse, state of inactivity
73. Desultory – aimless, haphazard; showing that you have no plan; “desultory meeting”
74. Detraction – petty criticism, carping, slandering, aspersion, “one who detracts is detractor”
75. Detrimental – harmful, or damaging
76. Devise – think, cogitate, plan, cerebrate, invent; “Devise your lesson carefully”
77. Devolve – delegate your duty to your deputy; “when Nepal becomes federal republic powers need to be devolved to provinces”
78. Diabolical – terrible, devilish; extremely bad or pestering; “The traffic was diabolical”
79. Diadem – crown
80. Diaphanous – transparent, sheer; (of cloth) so light and fine that you can almost see through; “her décolleté was enough diaphanous to attract amorous Adonis”.
81. Diffidence – lack of confidence; shyness
82. Dilation – expansion, especially of pupil – verb is dilate
83. Dilatory – delaying, procrastinating, lingering, dawdling, lagging
84. Dilettante – dabbler; amateur; a dilettante “let it go in the same way, what matters”– and debutante says, “No, be meticulous, you know, I have just started and I should let the crest of my family fall”.
85. Din – long sound; children were making din while the drum was making clangor
86. Dinghy – a small ship boat – Adjective – dull, not fresh or cheerless
87. Dint – means; effort; “By dint of much hard work you can score a better logogram is GRE”
88. Diorama – a model representing a scene with figures, especially in museum.
89. Dirge – requiem, threnody, lament with music; “Jackson got his dirge”
90. Disabuse – to say somebody that what they think is true is, in fact, not true; correct a false impression; undeceive; “Let me disabuse him first so that we can forge consensus”, said Girija to Nepal.
91. Disaffected – no longer satisfied with your situation, organization, belief, etc. and therefore not loyal to it; when children are disaffected for a long time with your principles they start being disaffected; “I believe conflict is begotten due to long standing disaffection”
92. Disapprobation – disapproval of somebody or something that you think is morally wrong
93. Disarray – disorderly or untidy state; a state of confusion; dismay
94. Disavow – disclaim, deny; to state publicly that you have no knowledge of something or you are not responsible for something or somebody; “they disavowed claims of split in the party”
95. Disburse – to pay money to somebody from a large amount that has been collected for a purpose; “The disbursement of funds”
96. Disclaim – denying; renouncing claim or responsibility to
97. Disclaim – stating publicly that you have no knowledge of something or that you are not responsible for something; to give up your right to something such as property or title; renounce “He disclaimed any responsibility”.
98. Discombobulated – discomposed; confused and a little annoyed
99. Discomfit – to make somebody feel confused or embarrassed; discomfiture (N); “A good teacher never makes her children feel discomfiture”.
100. Discompose – to disturb somebody and make them feel anxious; disconcert; disturb
101. Disconcert – to make somebody feel anxious, confused or embarrassed; discomfit; “his answer rather discomfited her”
102. Discretion – the freedom of power to decide what should be done in a particular situation; prudence in speech or action; freedom to act on one’s own; “Discretion of Girija”
103. Discursive – a style of writing or speaking moving from one point to another without any strict structures
104. Disdain – contempt; the feeling that somebody is not good enough to deserve your respect or attention
105. Disembark – opposite of embark; to leave a vehicle, especially a ship or an aircraft, at the end of journey; “I disembarked Buddha Air at 5 PM”.
106. Disfigure – deface; to spoil the appearance of a person or thing “the bulging front gum of my mouth has disfigured me”
107. Disgorge – vomit; cause to flow solid
108. Disgruntle – make discontented; the passengers were disgruntled by numerous delays
109. Disingenuous- not ingenuous; not sincere; artful; “Students are required to give ingenuous answers as far as possible”
110. Disinter – unearth a dead body; opposite of inter
111. Disparate – basically different; unrelated
112. Dispassionate – not influenced by emotion; “a dispassionate observer”
113. Dispel – to make something, especially a feeling or belief go away or disappear; “His speech dispelled any fears about his health”
114. Disport – disport yourself means “enjoy yourself” by doing something active.
115. Disquiet – unease; feeling or unhappy or worry
116. Disquisition – a long complicated speech of written report on a particular subject
117. Dissection – to analyze by cutting into parts; “Dracula tried to dissect the dead body of Lucy pretending that he would know the real cause of her death”
118. Dissemble – to hide real feelings or intention often pretending to have different one; disguise; dissimulate
119. Dissent – disagree; opposite of consent; dissenter is the one who disagrees
120. Dissident – rebellious; a person who disagrees with government
121. Dissipate – to gradually become weaker until it disappears; to waste time or money, especially by not planning the best way of using; squander
122. Dissolution – the act of officially ending a marriage, business agreement; dissolve
123. Distend – to swell because of pressure from inside; “starving children with huge distend bellies”; distention of stomach during pregnancy
124. Distraught – extremely upset or anxious so that cannot think clearly
125. Diurnal – opposite or nocturnal
126. Diva – prima donna; a famous woman singer
127. Divest – to remove clothes; to get rid of something; to take something away from somebody or something; “after her illness she was divested of much of her responsibilities”
128. Divulge – reveal; to leak out the secret information; nobody divulged the real identity of Dracula to Jonathan Hacker
129. Docile – quiet and easy to control; obedient; easily managed; a docile child
130. Docket – docket sheet; a list of cases to be dealt with in a particular court; agenda
131. Doddering – senile walking; he was doddering with a help of cane
132. Doff – to take off your hat, especially to show respect to somebody or something
133. Dogged – stubborn; determined
134. Doldrums – the state of feeling sad or depressed; a lack of activity or improvement; stagnation
135. Dole – money paid by the state to unemployed people; alms is the money paid to poor
136. Doleful – mournful;
137. Dolorous – feeling or showing great sadness
138. Domineer – rule over tyrannically (tyrannize)
139. Don – a teacher at the university; the leader of a group of criminals; to put on clothes “he divested sweeter and donned shirts”
140. Dormer – window projecting from roof
141. Dossier – folder of documents on a subject “we have a dossier for filing case against violation of child rights”
142. Dotage – be in your dotage; “the people in Nepal are consigned in their dotage”
143. Dour – inflexible, obstinate, sullen; not pleasant; not lively; sullen; stubborn “the game became a dour struggling with both men determined to win”
144. Douse – to stop a fire from burning by pouring water over it; plunge into water; drench; extinguish; “Boys doused girls with water balloons”
145. Dowdy – unattractive; not fashionable woman; drab
146. Drab – dull; uninteresting; “she was dressed in drab color
147. Draconian – extremely severe; draconian punishment
148. Drawbridge (N) - A bridge that can be raised to block passage or to allow boats or ships to pass beneath it; lift bridge
149. Dregs – sediment; worthless residue; “a lot of dregs remained after the wine was decanted”
150. Drivel – silly, nonsense; don’t talk drivel
151. Droll – queer and amusing; “he was a popular guest because his droll anecdotes were always entertaining”
152. Drone – ideal person who does no good work; male bee; talk dully; “the chairman droned for an hour; an aircraft droned over head.
153. Dross – waste matter, we can get dross when raw gold is assayed; “many methods have been devised to separate the valuable metal from the dross”
154. Drudgery – menial work, hard labor; work of servant; “Cinderella’s fairy grandmother rescued her from a life of drudgery”
155. Ductile – malleable; flexible; pliable, docile
156. Dulcet – mellifluous; sweet sounding
157. Dupe – someone easily fooled
158. Duress – forcible restraint, especially unlawful; threats or force used to make somebody do something; intimidate; bully
159. Dyspepsia – indigestion; dyspeptic